Perfect disguise by Elizabeth A (speld decodable readers .txt) 📗

Dominic's POV.

I got into my SUV. I started the car and drove out of the park lot. I really need to find a way to stop Chloe from taking advantage of my sexual attraction towards her.

It was twilight when I got home, I parked the SUV in the garage of my apartment and got down. After locking my car, I walked straight into the condominium and realized I haven't called Annie since I left the beauty salon. If only Chloe hadn't distracted me I would have brought the right hair treatment cream for Zoe's dandruff. Annie has complained about her daughter's dandruff and I had promised her I will give her the hair treatment cream when I get to her place.

I reached into my pocket for my phone, it was empty. I searched the other side, but it was empty. I sighed and became a little frustrated. Gosh, I left my phone in the car. Luckily, I saw it on the driver's seat when I walked back to the garage. I took it and dialed Annie's number. 

She picked up. I heard her calm and pleasant voice. "Hello, Are you still coming over tonight? Zoe has been asking after you," She said.

"Yes, I'm still coming." I assured her. 

I walked into the condominium. "I went to the salon today. I wanted to buy the hair treatment cream for Zoe's dandruff."

There was silence at the other line before she spoke. "So did you buy it?"

I shrugged and entered the condo lift. A tall and slender man stood in the lift, holding a paper box. The man nodded and looked at the lift door. I smiled and nodded back at him before answering Annie.

"I brought something similar to it. I don't know if it cures dandruff, but it's also a hair cream." I said.

She hummed and probably nodded. "Alright thanks, I also tried out an herbal hair cream for her hair, mom said it might work."

I heard the sound of something crashing on the floor with a clang and the movement of a chair before I heard Annie's voice. "Zoe, get down from there!" Annie hollered.

I laughed, Zoe might be giving her some hard time. Annie's daughter was still young and loved to play with anything she touched. 

"What's happening?" I asked her. 

She sighed. "Zoe broke my mirror."

I chuckled, I knew how she loved looking at the mirror. She would be so frustrated with Zoe's actions. "Oh."

"Bye, I have to go. I need to pack the broken pieces before she steps on it." She said,

"Alright, bye." I said and she hung up.

I smiled and pocketed my cell phone. The lift opened and I walked towards my apartment. Annie was my best friend since we were young and I have been in love with her since I was a teenager. We grew up in the same neighborhood and had attended the same high school. We could have gone to the same university, but Annie had a financial crisis and wasn't able to further her education.

I entered my apartment and saw Kenneth laying on the couch and pressing his phone.

He looked at me, his lips stretched into a wry smile. "Welcome back, roomie."

He sat up and rested his back on the couch. He dipped his hand into a bag of potato chips and put some chips into his mouth. Crumbs of the chip fell on the couch.

I shook my head.

"Stop eating on the couch." I grumbled like an old man. 

He puffed his cheeks and shrugged. "I don't care, it's more convenient this way." 

So as to annoy me more, he carelessly took out some chips from the bag, making it fall onto the couch. He loudly munched the remaining chips in his hand.

I ignored him and went to my room. I wondered how I coped with him as my flatmate, he littered the room without tidying it. 

I had my bath and was dressing up when my bedroom door opened and Kenneth walked inside. 

I stopped dabbing my hair with my towel and looked at him while buttoning my shirt. "You didn't knock." 

He lazily slumped onto my bed, scattered I'm the bed sheets which  I spent my precious time to arrange. "I'm bored. Let's play a game." 

I shook my head and smoothened the collar of my shirt. "I can't. I'm going out."

Kenneth jerked up and widened his eyes. "Are you going on a date?"

I didn't answer him and went to my shoe rack to take a footer.

Kenneth pouted and folded his hands. His brows came together like he was thinking. "Are you already seeing someone?"

I didn't answer him, so he winced on my bed, roughening it even more. "Come on, tell me. I'm dying of curiosity."

I looked at him. Thanks to him, my bed was already scattered. "Get down from my bed. You are roughening it."

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